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Sleep.

You would think after my last posts about sleep that Amy had been sleeping better. (Aside from a brief foray back into Revolutionary mode that it)

You would be wrong.

She is still waking often overnight, although getting herself out of bed has become more common-place. It isn’t unusual for me to be woken up by toddler feet in my bedroom up to 4 times a night.

Hey, at least I get kisses too. Sometimes.

You know what sucks though? When she throws her bottle of water down the stairs. Then I have to go and rescue it before she will consent to laying back down.

Sigh.

However, that isn’t the crux of the problem. I can handle the night wakings. I am used to the night wakings.

You know what sucks? Today is the second day of no daytime naps.

I’m freaking out! She is only 17mths old! I was relying on day sleeps for at least another 6 mths!

Yesterday I thought it was because we had to go out. She refused to sleep early and then? DIDN’T SLEEP IN THE CAR! She ALWAYS sleeps in the car.

But yesterday she went right until bedtime (when we were still in the car) before having a nap.

Today was just as bad. I put her down at her regular time, with her regular routine and BAM she smacked me down by not going to sleep.

At all!

I was up and down those stairs 100 (okay, I might be exaggerating, but it was at least 50) times, resettling and re-laying her in her bed.

No good.

Eventually Nathan took her out with him so I could have a (sanity saving, much needed) break.

In the whole time they were gone (2 hrs, with a 35 minute drive each way) Amy had 5 minutes sleep.

And that only when they were 5 minutes from home! And she was 45mins away from bedtime anyway.

I am not ready to lose the day sleep.

It will be alright, right? It’s just a phase, right?

Shit.

Happy Valentines Day to everyone who celebrates it. It isn’t really that big a deal here (or at least I don’t think so), so we didn’t have anything planned.

Lucky we didn’t because Pop’s funeral was today.

Good times people, good times. Or not.

I cried and Amy danced and then I got all teary and then Amy ran outside so she spent the funeral playing in the rose gardens with her Daddy.

It was very hard and not something I want to have to repeat in the near future. Okay? You hear me? No one is allowed to die anytime soon.

However, the good news?

We got our settlement date today! Can I get a woo hoo?

29th February!

15 days time!

So we will probably move 4-5 days after we get the keys, but at least now we know where we are at.

WOOOOT!

Meet Roger and Pam. They are Jellybabies.

Hello!

Roger and Pam are in love. Luckily for them, there was nothing standing in the way of their love. So they got married.

They were really quite horny little Jellybabies too. Look at them go!

However, eventually they got bored, so they added some spice in the way of another woman. See how she is faceless? That is how they like her.

Roger liked to watch.

But eventually he joined in too. He couldn’t help himself. Roger was like that.

Eventually, they got bored and decided to amp it up a level. Enter their experiments into group sex.

Pam enjoyed the group sex, but Roger didn’t like seeing his wife get, well, rogered.

So they went back to their regular lifestyle.

But Pam got bored easily.

And found herself another lover. Roger came home from work early one day and caught them in the act.

Roger went crazy and threw Pam off her faceless lover. He says that after that, everything is a bit of a blur.

It didn’t end well though.

OOOOOPS!

 

I had a post ready about Toddlers and chocolate milk (aka kiddie crack), but then Amy decided to stop her silliness because A) I got the camera out (just typical!) and B) Playschool came on TV (Oh Playschool, how I love thee).

So I was granted a few moments of toddler silence, while the sugar and milk make their way through her system.

She was funny though, spinning in circles, dancing, singing and just generally being a chocolate fuelled tornado.

In a good way.

Well she didn’t break anything, she didn’t hurt herself (or me for that matter) and she didn’t get too hyper.

It has to be good right?

So instead of a funny Amy tornado post, I give you

Da da DUM!

Lolcats!

Everyone likes lolcats right? Especially when they are my very own kittens.

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Today was Project Support Beauty in Nature.

I totally want to rename it, Project Make Nathan Come For A Walk With Us By Telling Him That We Are Only Walking To The Mailbox, Then Continue To Walk Further Down The Road, Thus Making Nathan Push The Pram Further While I Pick Up Rubbish.

Too long?

Okay, Project Support Beauty in Nature it is.

Because I am completely slack (and spent the entire morning taking photos of Amy in the garden) the camera’s battery was flat so I didn’t take play by play photos like Lotus does.

However, I did go for a nice long (okay it was short, but my roads are dangerous because we have no footpaths. Plus it was hot. And hello? We have snakes about the place. And the gravel was slippery. And it was 26C. And I was sweating. And the bag was heavy. Okay I will shut up now.) walk, with a plastic bag.

We picked up

One (1) empty long necked bottle of beer.

One (1) empty (and badly deteriorated) ice cream container.

One (1) empty chip packet.

One (1) empty can of Black Douglas and Cola (ICK! Who drinks that stuff?)

One (1) empty Boags Beer can.

One (1) plastic thingy that holds the beer cans together. (I can hear the penguins thanking me. Wait? I don’t have penguins? Okay, fish. No fish either? Dolphins? No? Eels? No? WELL! What was thanking me? Oh the rabbits? The wallabies? The *shudder* possums? Okay, I can deal with that. Maybe the cows even said a moo of thankyou. Those things could get tangled around a cows tail don’t you know! They are nasty those plastic things. Just waiting in the bushes to LEAP out and attack innocent animals.)

Lots (LOTS) of bits of broken glass.

AND

Some clingwrap (WTF?) an empty broken plastic pot plant container thing and some funny looking blue plastic bits that I am not questioning too closely.

Definitely worth the walk.

Even if the picture looks shoddy.

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As for green living, baby, I am all about the green. Especially as we don’t really have a choice.

We are on tank water so that means, a front load washing maching. (77 litres of water per full cycle as opposed to 167 litres)(Ooop’s sorry. 19.25 gallons vs 41.75 gallons).

It means shorter showers because we don’t have the water to waste.

It means bucketing water from the bathtub to the garden.

We don’t have roadside rubbish collection, so everything possible gets re-used. Plastic bottles get used as drink bottles or ice blocks. Actually, Amy has a bunch with lentils in that she shakes.

I re-use plastic bags as rubbish bags, freezer bags and covering the food in the fridge bags.

We try to be green. (Or would that be brown because we are in the middle of a drought?)

I want to set a good example for Amy when she grows up. I want her to put rubbish in the bin and food scraps in the compost. I want her to make less of an impact than I do, and her children even less still.

I don’t want much do I!